Much seems to be in flux for the off-year elections, now just six days away. Republican Bob McDonnell seems to be securing his lead in the Virginia gubernatorial contest, but different polls are showing different results in New Jersey, where Gov. Jon Corzine (D) is battling for a second term. With the GOP candidate in New York 23 apparently in a free-fall, Democrats are now focusing their attacks on Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.

There's also a gay marriage initiative on the ballot in Maine, another congressional contest in California's 10th CD, plus mayoral elections in New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Charlotte, to name a few.

We'll talk about all that and (sadly) more in today's Political Junkie segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation. Somewhere on the program, I predict, I will compare the Obama administration to Ivan the Terrible. But then I'll apologize.

Special guests slated for today's show: Two of the three gov candidates in NJ -- Gov. Corzine and Chris Daggett, an independent who is polling in the double digits. Republican Chris Christie has a scheduling conflict -- he is beginning a six-day bus tour today. But we haven't given up on getting him.

Join host Neal Conan and me every Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET for the Junkie segment on TOTN, where you can often, but not always, find interesting conversation, useless trivia questions and sparkling jokes. And you can win a Political Junkie T-shirt!

If you must, you can hear last week's program, with special guest Helen Thomas, here.

If your local NPR station doesn't carry TOTN, you can hear the program on the Web or on HD Radio. And if you are a subscriber to XM/Sirius radio, you can find the show there as well (siriusly).

categories: On The Air

9:21 - October 28, 2009

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